[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] metrics: fix resource leak on memory allocation fail

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 5:06 PM Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com> wrote:
>
> If an error occurred when allocating memory for metrics or names,
> the function returned without freeing allocated memory. This is now
> fixed to avoid the resource leak in the case that either metrics or
> names had been successfully allocated memory.
>
> Coverity issue: 362053
> Fixes: c5b7197f662e ("telemetry: move some functions to metrics library")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>

Gaurav reported the same issue and proposed a patch, but I went with
yours as it describes the issue, is minimal and has the proper tags
for backport.

Reported-by: Gaurav Singh <gaurav1086 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>


Applied, thanks.

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David Marchand